"Remember this, if you see someone doing something but at the same time watching you... then he is a cop."

Annika receives a surprise gift today, her ninth birthday: Dense fog has caused a two-hour delayed start to school.
She gets to sleep in!
We will play The Beatles' "Birthday" for Annika when she wakes up -- it's a Hogstrom family tradition.
While I wait for the girls to wake up, I have been thinking about Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's "Wu jian dao/Mou gaan dou (Infernal Affairs)," which I watched for the second or third time on DVD last night.
The story of a gang mole and a police mole closing in on each other is memorable -- enough so that Martin Scorsese remade the film as "The Departed."
I focused on the actors during last night's viewing.
Tony Leung is masterful as the undercover cop. I can see why Leung is held in such high regard by fans of Hong Kong cinema.
Andy Lau is equally impressive as the police infiltrator who becomes torn -- is he a good man or a bad man?
Roger Ebert wrote that "the movie pays off in a kind of emotional complexity rarely seen in crime movies."
Surely, much of that emotional complexity comes from the brilliant acting of Leung, Lau and the remainder of the great cast.
Well, I hear some stirrings from upstairs. Time to start celebrating with the birthday girl!